abandonment.
The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
Meaning & usage
The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child; desertion.
Since he left her, she's suing him for divorce on grounds of abandonment.
An abandoned building or structure.
High-profile abandonments are harder to infiltrate for urban explorers due to their heightened security.
The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by an inventor; relinquishment of copyright by an author.
The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government agency.
A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its value.
The self-surrender to an outside influence.
Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from French abandonnement, from abandonner (“to abandon, relinquish”). abandonner was originally equivalent to mettre à bandon (“to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another”), bandon being from Medieval Latin bandum, bannum (“order, decree, ban”). Equivalent to abandon + -ment. (See also English banns.)
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